Test 6 · ★ · Old Deccan Days, The Girl with One Hand, part 34: a cruel…

So the brother got the sister's new life, then came back to moan?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother · What happens: get, come back, moan · To what, where: new life

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1309 «Old Deccan Days, The Girl with One Hand, part 34: a cruel brother cuts off his sister's hand, and a prince finds her crying in a tree» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sister	det
6	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 life	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 sister	case
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 life	amod
9	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 came	advmod
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 moan	mark
15	moan	moan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 came	advcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	get	past	the brother	the sister's new life		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus
2	come back	past	the brother not said here		then	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	moan	to-infinitive	the brother not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

Yeah, he was dead jealous, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 jealous	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 jealous	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 jealous	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 jealous	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 jealous	amod
6	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 jealous	punct
8	innit	innit	INTJ	_	6 jealous	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					jealous property	tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, he was proper envious, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 envious	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 envious	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 envious	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 envious	cop
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 envious	advmod
6	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 envious	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					mate vocative; envious, properly property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he was well jealous, like

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 jealous	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 jealous	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 jealous	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 jealous	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 jealous	advmod
6	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 jealous	punct
8	like	like	INTJ	_	6 jealous	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					jealous, well property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he was well jealous, like, and came back to moan about her luck

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 jealous	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 jealous	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 jealous	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 jealous	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 jealous	advmod
6	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	6 jealous	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 jealous	conj
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 moan	mark
14	moan	moan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 came	advcl
15	about	about	ADP	_	17 luck	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 luck	nmod:poss
17	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 moan	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	jealous, well property	tree rules
2	come back	past	he not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	moan	to-infinitive	he not said here	about her luck	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about luck=Topic

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